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Okay see reading stuffers next up here in this awesome

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piece of writing that we're analyzing here all together If

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there's one thing we live in a stress Yeah We're

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skimming Managing stress whether short or long term can depend

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upon the source of the factors All right well the

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impact stress on day life only unique and memorable Okay

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in contact which of the following phrases could be considered

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a credible source if added to the beginning of sentence

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force aware sentence florets right there here's The key phrase

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thinking ratting out the key to managing stress is in

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our ability to identify its causes Alright on contact which

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could be considered a credible source or what's a source

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here Well who should we believe We prefer the clinical

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titles of a registered nurse who has a phd to

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boot Yeah That's pretty good there right Hard to do

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A statement coming from anna's endow an employee of a

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college of health sciences would certainly set the reader's minds

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at ease and make them less suspicious of the information

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quoted like it's a credible source like an actual expert

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in the field Not like you know in the political

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stuff you read the new york times or in what

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you read on the drudge website and that kind of

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stuff for left and right highly biased things shows we

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look through there That's got to be it it's a

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and the loser bull here it's ah well pretty unclear

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stuff unless local dog population starts getting frazzled overwork reports

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and stressing about having to drop the kids off at

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ballet and karate Well we're guessing that a veterinarian it's

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not the most credible source to use here in paragraph

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to get rid of b i'm doing a quick little

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survey of a bunch of people who experience stress isn't

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the most credible way tio go about supporting evidence either

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Our gal monica may have first hand experience with stress

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but well she's only a patient not a licensed physician

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or published academic on the topic and readers are less

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inclined to believe non experts So get rid of the

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others It's a uh going with anna anna dot com

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you got game All right that's it we're shmoop

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